ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,978, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).
"System and method for pairing medical devices" was invented by Jianfeng Gu (Shanghai), Junhua Song (Shanghai), Mingxia Sun (Shanghai) and Chunlang Hong (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device monitoring system includes a monitor and a medical device. The monitor includes an infrared emitter that transmits a first infrared signal, the first infrared signal comprising identification information of the monitor, a second infrared signal comprising the identification information, and a time gap between the first infrared signal and the second infrar...